Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the scientists and thechnologits had done for the world, now reaped the rewards.

Life is so beautiful, it dazzles my eyes.

An insufficient level of awareness is indistinguishable from ignorance.

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.

I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.

Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.

Robert Redford, ha ha! He's a very attractive man and I'm not. Or Noel Edmonds, as he's a friend of mine and knows me well.